Race 3 - Day 20
Skipper Report
20 November

Bob Beggs
Bob Beggs
Team Unicef
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Well a busy 24 hours. We gave the Elliott Brown Ocean Sprint our best shot with some great surfing and enjoyable downwind sailing. We had our first halyard failure of the race since Liverpool, the main halyard parted at the head of the main due to some damaged sail slides. This meant taking the track gate off and sewing on some new sliders at the head of the mainsail, although this was all completed quickly but lost a couple of hours of good boat speed effecting our sprint.

Overnight we could make out GREAT Britain on the AIS and had a quick chat with Skipper Andy we offered any assistance they might need but they are self-sufficient and resuming racing, our thoughts are with them.

We have now gybed towards Fremantle and are now flying our spinnaker making good speed and now expect the weather to become warmer each day as we head North and approach Australia.

I am not one to speak of food in these blogs, but traditional pancakes sprinkled with sugar and a squeeze of lemon for breakfast this morning was most welcome.

Whilst I type I can see the twenty knot surfs notching up on the instrument's time to go on deck and join in....

Until tomorrow,

Cheers Bob